With more and more of us living in foreign lands and connections made with others from practically everywhere in the world, relationships are more and more cross cultural. How does this change in decentralized identities and altered connection points affect love relationships and our ability to communicate love? Use research done on love, relating to themes of anthropology, history, sociology, psychology, economic, and media sources to validate findings.

1 Cross-cultural couples feel enriched by their different cultural background in terms of a greater diversity of perspectives and are going with this less often confronted with reaching a point of a tedium state in a relationship.

2 Differing cultural backgrounds cause conflicts and problems in a relationship about communication and expectations and attitudes towards the relationship.

3 Globalization causes an increase in the number of cross-cultural couples.

4 Differing mother tongues in a relationship affect the emotions connected with the linguistic commitment of the love for the partner. 4.1 One of the languages becomes the predominant language of communication in the relationship.